The Constitution required Lincoln to hold national property and make the Constitutionally required collections at the port of Charleston. If Lincoln was to uphold the Constitution he had no choice but to do what the supreme law told him to do. The evil usurpation of the feds today can not be laid on a president who was just doing his Constitutional duty.
Right now I am at work to be able to make money to pay taxes to the federal overlords in Washington.
I can appreciate the dismay at the tax devouring federal behemoth, but you should focus on Woodrow Wilson, FDR and LBJ and not Lincoln.
“I can appreciate the dismay at the tax devouring federal behemoth, but you should focus on Woodrow Wilson, FDR and LBJ and not Lincoln.”
WW, FDR, & LBJ were unquestionably presidents who were unconcerned with the restraints of the federal constitution. You and I differ on including Lincoln on that unholy list.